Photog Sues Feds for Heavy-Handed Raid

[Cold Highway]

In her federal complaint, Sennett says she was not a target of criminal investigation, yet officials searched her home, seized computer hardware and data, digital cameras and memory cards, a still camera, digital storage devices, and a digital voice recorder.

I hope she wins

Courthouse News Service

 

[winston53660]

Holy moly I've been posting with that lady for YEARS and I actually gave her photo advice when she first started out.

 

[Truth Detector]

I hope she wins

Courthouse News Service

My two cents; this case won’t go anywhere.

According to the complaint, the authorities did have a search warrant, but the warrant was issued on the basis of false and misleading information purposefully provided by the defendants. Specifically, the affidavit in support of the warrant signed by one of the detectives allegedly failed to state that Sennett was a photojournalist, even though Sennett cites other statements by the defendants that demonstrate that they knew she was a photojournalist engaged in photojournalism at the time they applied for the warrant.

Sennett was never charged criminally nor arrested in connection with either the protest nor any materials obtained via the search or seizure.

Privacy Protection Act Of 1980 | PogoWasRight.org

http://www.courthousenews.com/2009/09/25/IMFPhotog.pdf

It is a stretch to believe that these Detectives should have known that this person is a "photo journalist" as no one has ever heard of her. :doh

 

[Kandahar]

I hope she wins

Courthouse News Service

Me too. That's pretty ****ed up.

 

[winston53660]

It is a stretch to believe that these Detectives should have known that this person is a "photo journalist" as no one has ever heard of her. :doh

Excuse me but just how many working photo journalists are famous? B oth CNN and the History Channel have published her work. She keeps on working at the gig.

 

[Truth Detector]

Excuse me but just how many working photo journalists are famous? B oth CNN and the History Channel have published her work. She keeps on working at the gig.

That is my point; her contention according to what little information we have on this case is that they should have known and named her as such in her lawsuit.

I doubt this case will go anywhere but the trash heap and this is more about someone trying to promote themselves than it does anything illegal by this Government.

 

[winston53660]

That is my point; her contention according to what little information we have on this case is that they should have known and named her as such in her lawsuit.

I doubt this case will go anywhere but the trash heap and this is more about someone trying to promote themselves than it does anything illegal by this Government.

The point of the lawsuit is unConstitutional search and seziure.

 

[Truth Detector]

The point of the lawsuit is unConstitutional search and seziure.

And yet they had a legal search warrant. :doh

 

[winston53660]

And yet they had a legal search warrant. :doh

That is for the courts to figure out not you nor me.

 

[Don't Tase Me Bro]

And yet they had a legal search warrant. :doh

That doesn't mean it was legally authorized.

 

[ashurbanipal]

Actually, they may not have. If the warrant was based on faulty or false information, and it can be shown that the authorities made no attempt to verify the information, it may not have been a legal search warrant. Just because a Judge gave a signature somewhere does not automatically guarantee legality. This will be especially the case if it turns out that somewhere in the chain someone actually knew the information was misleading.